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PRESENTATION OF FACTS 



IN REFERENCE TO 



The Appropriations Asked For 



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The University of Georgia 



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The Branch Colleges 



1920 



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Atlanta, Ga., July 8, 1920. 

TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: 
Gentlemen : 

As representing the Board of Trustees of the University, the 
undersigned committee therefrom, charged with the duty of pre- 
senting to the Legislature the needs of the University, and those 
of all of the branch colleges, wish to call the attention of your 
Honorable Body to certain matters, which under the direction of 
our Board, is made encumbent upon us. Under the law it is made 
the duty of the Trustees of the University to present what they 
conceive to be the needs of the University and its branches, since 
all moneys appropriated for higher education must be made to 
the Trustees of the University for the use of these University 
branches. 

The work of these institutions during the past year has been 
carried on under the new conditions consequent upon the ending 
of the great war ; economic changes in money value, and the cost 
of living have been especially onerous upon the students and 
teaching force of all these colleges; the world wears a new face 
in all business relations. The management of all the colleges 
without exception have been hard pressed to carry on their work 
and hampered by inadequate provisions for maintenance. Your 
Honorable Body at the last session did the best you could for 
these institutions, but many contingencies, unexpected and un- 
foreseen then, have arisen and the Board of Trustees is face to 
face with resulting conditions. 

THE WORK OF THE SCHOOLS. 

We have not received as yet the census of 1920. It is well to 
take our bearings and see what has been accomplished in the last 
decade in Georgia. The census returns of 1910, placed upon this 
State a great burden from which she has been struggling to free 
herself. The educators of Georgia have felt the showing charged 
against our State, and have smarted under it. The census of 
1910 showed that 20.7 per cent, of the people of Georgia ten 
years of age and over were illiterate. There were six other 
States only in the United States that showed a greater per- 
centage of illiteracy. While Georgia had 20.7 per cent, of her 
population classed as illiterates, Oregon, Nebraska and Iowa had 
less than two per cent. More than half the States in the Union 
showed a percentage of illiteracy less than five per cent, while 
Georgia's percentage, as has been stated, was 20.7 per cent. It 



is easy to say that the colored portion of our population is re- 
sponsible for this. At the same time, it shows the great work 
that was put upon our State in the way of the necessity of the 
education of our people. At that same time, 22.8 per cent, of 
the voters, that is, males of voting age, were illiterate in Georgia. 
Georgia had in 1910 of persons over ten years of age, 196,026 
males who were illiterate ; 193,749 females who were illiterate, or 
a total of 389,775 illiterates. There were 308,639 of these ne- 
groes. There were 141,541 persons of voting age that were 
classd as illiterates. 

We haven't the figures at hand now to show the present con- 
ditions, but it is upon this great mass of illiteracy that the schools 
of the State had to work. It can be easily imagined the difficul- 
ties under which the school work has gone on where they have 
had to educate the children of illiterates, and endeavor to teach 
them. The common schools, the high schools and the University 
in all its branches, have steadily been making inroads upon this 
great bulk of illiteracy, and we are confident that the present 
census will show our State up in a much better light. To show 
the interest that has been aroused in the State to get rid of this 
condition, in the year 1919 the State raised for public schools 
more than nine and a quarter millions of dollars, and this, of 
course, was the work of the aroused public sentiment. The com- 
mon schools are the basis of our educational system. They 
ought to be supported to the extent of the State's ability. But 
comparatively few who succeed in getting through the common 
schools and high schools are in position to take the advantages 
offered by the University, but it is absolutely necessary that the 
State should have an able teaching force — teachers who are able 
to teach and can give back the State in their work a considera- 
tion for the money they receive. It is at this point that the 
great work of the University and its branches comes in ; it is the 
business of all these schools to furnish teachers for all the schools 
in the State, both the common schools and the high schools, and 
these teachers for the common schools should be of high stand- 
ard and properly trained for the discharge of their duties. 

AS TO THE TEACHERS OF THE STATE. 

The total number of scholars of school age in Georgia in 1919 
was 840,861 ; the total enrollment was 689,120, and the average 
attendance was 467,081. The total number of teachers was 15,- 
753. If we but consider this great army of teachers and measure 
by experience the number that die or quit this work, either from 
choice or other circumstances, it cannot fail to be less than ten 
per cent. Teachers like other people die, and it is reasonable to 
estimate that a number of these teachers pass out of this work 
in other ways. In any event, the teaching force must be kept up, 
and it would be a low estimate to say that from one thousand to 
fifteen hundred new teachers are needed every year. The State 



from all its institutions, at the present rate, cannot hope to fur- 
nish from the graduates of its institutions properly qualified 
more than seven or eight hundred as replacements. It can fur- 
nish comparatively few who have completed a four-year college 
course to take work as teachers in the high schools. Since the 
teacher should be thoroughly educated and have the ability to 
impart the knowledge that is required, it would seem to be the 
most important consideration of all that the State should so 
support these institutions that the common schools and the high 
schools could look to the University and its branches for a first 
class teaching force. The key to the educational system of Geor- 
gia is the University — the oldest state University in the Union. 
This institution occupies the capstone of the State's educational 
system. Upon its vitality and efficiency the intellectual and ma- 
terial life of the State is largely dependent. If you should tear 
the record of the University from the history of the State, if you 
should remove the influence of those minds trained in the Uni- 
versitjr, much of the State's history would have to be re-written. 
In the great war just passed, the University had more than 
twenty-two hundred of her Alumni in the service. Nearly nine 
hundred of these served as commissioned officers. This record, 
based upon the number of students matriculated, is unequaled by 
any civilian college in the United States. Of these patriotic 
young Georgians, who in response to the call of duty went across 
the seas, forty-six of them gave their lives, and hundreds of 
them came back with honorable scars received in the service of 
their country. 

INCREASED ATTENDANCE. 

It is a satisfaction to know that the people of the State have 
awakened to the necessity of higher education. Higher educa- 
tion means broader thinking, higher aspirations, better living, 
and happy homes. Ten years ago the University had about three 
hundred students. During the last session it had in attendance 
upon the University proper twelve hundred and fifty-eight stu- 
dents. Most of the lecture rooms are so badly crowded that the 
best work can be done only at a disadvantage. Practically every 
building on the campus is in need of equipment and repairs ; the 
members of the faculty are being tempted into other lines of en- 
deavor in order to get a living. The most urgent of all needs at 
this time facing the University is the matter of pay for its 
faculty. Salaries have increased only about an average of twen- 
ty-five per cent, in the last thirty years; whereas today living 
costs are two and one-half times as great as five years ago. This 
has made it extremely difficult for Chancellor Barrow to main- 
tain the personnel of the faculty. Since 1918 fifteen out of 
forty-five of the faculty of Franklin College and State College, 
and twenty-six out of sixty from the College of Agriculture have 
resigned. Other members of the faculty may submit resigna- 



tions at the end of this term, not because the profession is be- 
coming any less alluring to them but because they are not paid 
enough to live. It is impossible to replace these men with men 
as well qualified for the work on the present salary basis. 

THE NEED OF BUILDINGS. 

The last appropriation for a dormitory on the campus was in 
1901 — nineteen years ago, for Candler Hall, at which time the 
student body was about 350 in number. Today there is an at- 
tendance of about three and one-half times as many. The dormi- 
tories are crowded three or four men to the room, and Athens 
cannot offer inexpensive rooming facilities to the students who 
are anxious to enter. 

Our present Chapel will seat only about half of the students 
enrolled. The Physics Department has reached the limit of its 
available space and a new building is needed. 

The Denmark dining room was built in 1901 and will accommo- 
date 250 students. Today about five times that many are to be 
fed and a much larger building is required. 

The University has increased in numbers to 1258 students. 
Most of the lecture rooms are so badly crowded that the work 
must be done at a great disadvantage. Practically every build- 
ing on the campus is in sore need of additional equipment and 
repair. 

There is an item of an appropriation asked for of one hundred 
thousand dollars for a building for the Department of Physics 
which is imperative. This is the great Scientific Department 
and the present building is crowded and inadequate. It is hoped 
this appropriation can be made. 

THE DORMITORY FOR WOMEN. 

In 1919 female students were admitted to all the departments 
of the University except Franklin College. This Committee is 
directed by the Board of Trustees at this time to present to the 
Legislature a bill allowing them to enter Franklin College. Under 
the law as it existed when they were admitted it covered all the 
practical studies followed by the female students. The exclusion 
of them from Franklin College deprives them of the right to at- 
tend upon but one or two studies that do not come under the pro- 
visions of the law under which they were admitted in 1919. Dur- 
ing the past session there were about one hundred female stu- 
dents who came to the University for the purpose of taking ad- 
vantage of the facilities offered them in the higher classes, and 
which facilities were not offered to them anywhere else in any 
of the State institutions. These girls came to Athens to pursue 
their studies and there was no dormitory space for them; they 
had to seek board as best they could anywhere in the city ; some 



of them had to go away for the reason that they could not get 
accommodations. One of the crying needs of the University 
today is dormitory space for women. Such a dormitory when 
erected would be put under the charge of a matron, and these 
female students would have all the benefits of the care and com- 
forts of a home life. The Trustees think that the grant of $125,- 
000.00 asked for for this purpose is a necessity. It is important, 
further, for the reason that almost without exception these young 
women are preparing themselves for teaching, and with the facil- 
ities offered in Peabody School of Education and the other de- 
partments at Athens, they will have such training and attain to 
such a standard of scholarship that they will be absolutely free 
and independent as teachers when they graduate. This is a great 
field for Georgia. The State has no greater assets than the un- 
trained minds of its boys and girls. It has nothing that will com- 
pare with the the enhancement in value as the proper training 
of these young minds. 

INCREASE IN DORMITORY SPACE FOR THE MALE 

STUDENTS. 

Fifteen years ago the University grounds at Athens consisted 
of 27 acres. George Foster Peabody inaugurated a movement to 
expand this campus; he was the greatest donor. He was joined 
by many public spirited Georgians, largely from the City of 
Athens, and as a result the University grounds were increased 
to about 1000 acres, all of which is now the property of the State, 
without any cost to it. Upon this is now located the Agricultural 
College, its buildings and farm. The patriotic Georgians who 
gave this property to the State have paid all of the purchase 
money but $8,000.00, about which the State need not bother, as 
it will be paid. Much of this property was city property and 
had to be bought as such, paying high prices for it. Though 
bought before the present increase in prices, it cost a great deal 
of money, but enhanced as it has been of late, it may safely be 
said to be worth from $800,000.00 to $1,000,000.00. Upon this 
property is located twenty-eight dwelling houses, which now be- 
long to the University. These houses are out of repair, they need 
roofs, and they have all the infirmities of old buildings. It is pro- 
posed to repair these houses, to preserve them for the State, and 
to use them to increase the dormitory space for boys. If they 
were properly repaired it is estimated that possibly 150 boys 
would find rooming space in them. To leave them alone is to let 
them go to waste and destruction to the loss of the State. The 
University buildings upon the campus including the present dor- 
mitories, the class rooms and the Chapel are old buildings, much 
scattered, but their replacement would cost the State possibly a 
million dollars. The Board of Trustees have done the best they 
could to care for these buildings with what money they had in 



hand. They have always insisted upon a proper care of the roofs 
and the replacement of windows. Inside they need paint and cal- 
cimining and other repairs in order to make them presentable 
for the purposes for which they are used. At the last session 
of the Board the estimated cost of repairs upon these buildings 
was about $11,000.00, and the Board had only $6,500.00 that it 
could appropriate for this purpose. There is no school or depart- 
ment of the University but which is not better supplied with 
equipment than the class rooms of the University proper. Some 
of the present equipment has been in use for forty or fifty years. 
It is antiquated and much of it worn out. 

For the repair of the dwelling houses and buildings upon the 
University grounds, for the necessary equipment to the class 
rooms, the Board of Trustees have in their budget asked for ap- 
propriation in the sum of $25,000.00 to cover these needs. We 
insist that such appropriation under the facts is absolutely 
needed, and if it is in the power of the General Assembly to ap- 
propriate the money for it, it will serve a good purpose. 

ALUMNI HALL. 

About fifteen years ago the Alumni of the University set on 
foot an undertaking through donations from the Alumni, to build 
an Alumni Hall. The object of this was to house the athletics, 
the Y. M. C. A., and build a swimming pool and bath house for 
the students. This building was started, and the Alumni Asso- 
ciation raised about $60,000.00 which was spent upon the build- 
ing. The first story is partially completed. It is found that by 
the finishing of the upper stories that dormitory space can be 
had for about 75 students. This undertaking will cover several 
matters. It would finish the building, which stands as an eye 
sore in its dilapidated condition upon the campus; it would pre- 
serve a work and expenditure that has already been made and 
utilize it ; it would further provide dormitory space for about 75 
students. 

It is further proposed that this building shall be turned into 
a memorial building for the Alumni who lost their lives in the 
late war. Of the 2200 Alumni that went into the service, there 
were 46 that lost their lives in fighting for their country. It is 
proposed in this building to place proper memorial tablets so that 
the patriotism of these young Georgians may be perpetuated and 
may live as an inspiration for the future students of the Uni- 
versity at all times. This would seem to be a proposition of 
economy for the University ; it has this unfinished building upon 
its hands, and to appropriate the "$75,000.00 asked for the com- 
pletion of the building would serve all the purposes hereinbefore 
indicated. 



THE SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY. 

This is a great school. It has had a wonderful development, 
and as it stands today it is an institution of which the State of 
Georgia should be proud. It has made for itself a national repu- 
tation in the field of technical and scientific training. There is 
no other school like it in the south, and it ranks with the first 
schools of its kind in the United States. It has done much for 
Georgia and its future permits more and greater results. 

Former Governor N. E. Harris, then a member of the Legisla- 
ture from Bibb County, conceived the idea of establishing this 
institution and he is the founder of it. He was able to see fur- 
ther and more clearly into the future than any other Georgian as 
to its possibilities, and help in the development of our State. 
What he visioned then is a reality today. Since it was estab- 
lished he has been the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and 
the school has had his help and fostering care. This work of his, 
if for no other reason, should enroll his name forever among the 
list of great Georgians. 

The Board of Trustees were fortunate in placing at the head 
of this institution Dr. K. G. Matheson, a man who has grown into 
and become a part of the Tech. In the administration of its 
affairs, he has done more than any one else; he has seen the 
needs of the school from time to time and has tried to meet them. 
He has plead and begged for Tech ; he has secured as donations 
for the school the greater part of its equipment, which is now the 
property of the State; his efforts have been untiring, and they 
have met with great success. It would be a revelation for the 
Members of the General Assembly if they would visit this school 
and see the great plant that is there, which is now offering tech- 
nical and scientific training to the young men of Georgia. This 
equipment includes almost everything that the great schools of 
the East have in States where they are not hampered for want 
of money. It is a great achievement on the part of Dr. Matheson 
to have gotten together this great plant with so little cost to the 
State. 

The enrollment at Tech during the last session was about 1500 
students. This is about three times as many as it had ten years 
ago. The prospects are that the attendance will be much larger 
during the next session. It requires a large teaching force of 
trained scientists to carry on the work at this school. Never in 
the history of this country have trained technical men been in 
such demand. These professors are offered in many directions 
from two to three times the pay they receive now to get them 
away from this school. There is only one way to keep them, and 
that is to pay them enough money to induce them to remain. 
The great complaint with them is the high cost of living, and it 
is hoped that by a reasonable increase of their salaries they can 
be induced to remain instead of leaving their chosen life work of 



teaching. The Trustees of that school have found that it is ab- 
solutely necessary that they have an additional appropriation for 
maintenance of $125,000.00. The State should see to it that this 
school should maintain its high standard of working efficiency, 
and any amount of money necessary for this purpose would be 
well spent by the State. Our future development depends upon 
trained technical men, just such as' the School of Technology 
trains and graduates ; men able to run our cotton factories ; men 
able to manage and run our electric light plants ; men able as en- 
gineers to lay out and construct the future railroads needed in 
our State ; men that have the training and ability to develop our 
water powers and our mineral resources. 

EXCERPT FROM PRESIDENT MATHESON'S ANNUAL 

REPORT. 

Here as under the heading of "Tech's Needs" I must stress 
with all the emphasis possible the absolute and immediate need 
of substantially increasing faculty salaries. The time has come 
when the issue is clear-cut and must be met if the school is to 
continue to operate. To be explicit over thirty-five faculty va- 
cancies have to be supplied for the work of next year. The Pres- 
ident has visited in person, or has corresponded with most of the 
leading colleges and universities of the North and Middle West 
in an earnest effort to secure qualified teachers for next session. 
In addition, he, with the Heads of all Departments, has made 
every conceivable effort to supply the vacancies referred to. It is 
a matter of regret and supreme concern, however, that over 
twenty-five vacancies still remain to be filled, and scarcely a day 
passes that some teacher does not resign in order to accept a 
more lucrative position elsewhere. Young men are no longer en- 
tering the teaching profession and scientifically trained men es- 
pecially are in such remunerative demand by industrial corpora- 
tions that qualified teachers of engineering are being reduced to 
a negligible number. The people of the State have no real ap- 
preciation of alarming present conditions and unless substantial 
salary increases be authorized immediately either operation of 
the school must cease, or its standards be lowered to mediocrity 
by an inferior teaching force. In giving publicity to this true 
and alarming status my responsibility ceases, and that of the 
Legislature to the people of Georgia begins. I am only emphasiz- 
ing prophecies which I have constantly made during the past 
two years, and which have now reached the climax of disastrous 
fulfillment. Either more and better pay for teachers immedi- 
ately or no teachers worth while is the epitome of present condi- 
tions. What will the Legislature do ? 



EXCERPT FROM THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT. 

Needs. 

First, the vital need is an adequate increase in appropriation 
for maintenance, which will hold and secure qualified teachers. 
This has already been mentioned, but it cannot be over-empha- 
sized. As stated in my report of last year the School's pre-war 
maintenance appropriation was $100,000.00, when the school had 
enrolled 724 students, and the value of a dollar was normal. Now 
the enrollment of regular students is nearly 1,500 and the value 
of a dollar has been cut in two. In order to operate therefore 
with any degree of efficiency the appropriation for maintenance 
must be at least doubled, and I strongly recommend that the 
Board petition the next Legislature to this effect. I regret to 
record for the first time in the fifteen years of my administra- 
tion a deficit has been incurred despite the stringent economy 
that has been practiced. The deficit would have been much 
larger had not the President used every available source of in- 
come from the special departments established and had he not by 
personal effort secured donations from private and public sources 
other than the state. 

Second ; as already indicated, all of the buildings should be ren- 
ovated. This has not been done for years and the buildings gen- 
erally are not in good condition. 

Third ; the War Department has served notice upon the School 
that the valuable military equipment sent us must be properly 
housed. Much of this equipment is now actually exposed to the 
weather and the Department has submitted plans for a necessary 
building to cost approximately $10,000.00. 

Fourth; I must report with a feeling akin to humiliation that 
the School has been financially unable to install the magnificent 
donation of electrical equipment made by the Westinghouse Co. 
This equipment is now in the new Power House crated and the 
students are thus being deprived of the great engineering ben- 
efits which its installation will give. Should this installation be 
much longer deferred the donation will be withdrawn, and I 
therefore most earnestly recommend that sufficient appropria- 
tion be made to install the equipment promptly. 

Fifth ; I again recommend that an expert appraisal be made of 
the buildings, grounds and equipment of the School. As no such 
appraisal has ever been made further commend is unnecessary. 

NEEDS OF THE GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE OF 
AGRICULTURE. 

1. Increased Emergency Maintenance Appropriation — $20,000.00 
For Each of the Years 1920 and 1921. 

There have been twenty-eight resignations in the resident 
staff of the College since July 1, 1919. Others are certain to 
follow. This represents a change of one-third in the personnel 
of the institution within twelve months. The increase in the 



salaries of those resigning over what the College was able to pay 
them amounts to approximately $25,000.00. It is impossible to 
fill many of the positions made vacant at the old salaries. Even 
members of the present graduating class will not accept posi- 
tions as instructors at a salary which the Trustees are able to 
offer. The high character and efficiency of the work done by the 
institution is therefore in jeopardy, and the maintenance of ade- 
quate courses of instruction rendered well-nigh impossible. In 
view of the present high living costs, common justice demands 
that the salaries of the younger members of the staff in par- 
ticular be substantially increased. 

The cost of common labor for the care of the buildings and 
grounds has doubled, and in some instances, trebled in the past 
two years. Coal which formerly cost at the mines 95 cents a ton 
is now costing $7.00. Laboratory supplies and material of every 
kind and description have advanced in like proportion. It is thus 
apparent that the increase asked for is as conservative a request 
as could be made, and unless relief is afforded along the lines in- 
dicated, the institution will either have to withdraw certain fun- 
damental courses of instruction, limit its sphere of service and 
activity materially, or face a heavy indebtedness which the con- 
stitution of the State forbids. We can only appeal as a state 
institution to the General Assembly of Georgia for relief. The 
Trustees, therefore, have prepared this memorial to the end that 
you might be acquainted with the essential facts, and through 
legislative action this summer make immediately available an 
increase in the maintenance fund of the institution of $20,000.00 
for the year 1920. It is, of course, just as essential that the same 
increase be made available for the year 1921. 

2. Completion of Animal Husbandry Building— $100,000.00. 

A request of $50,000.00 for this purpose is already of file with 
the legislature. It is needless to point out that the structure 
could have been built for this sum at one time. Building costs 
have more than doubled recently, so that the request now made 
for $100,000.00 for the purpose indicated is very conservative. 
The General Assembly of Georgia has already appropriated $10,- 
000.00 with which to begin this structure. This has been spent 
putting in the foundation and erecting the necessary frame work 
thereon. Georgia has more than $200,000,000.00 invested in live 
stock and derives an annual revenue therefrom of at least $125,- 
000,000.00. It is the industry upon which the fundamental pros- 
perity of the state rests in the future. It is the one means of 
combatting and overcoming the depredations of the boll weevil 
successfully. The success of the live stock industries in many 
northern states is based primarily on the character of the in- 
struction offered the farmers and their sons through the me- 
dium of their agricultural colleges. Several southern states al- 
ready have facilities for instruction in animal husbandry sur- 
passing those available in Georgia. The College of Agriculture 

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at Athens at this time has no building or equipment for this pur- 
pose. The enrollment in the long courses the past year was 529, 
and in the short courses, 518. There were over 1000 students on 
the grounds anxious to secure the benefits of training which the 
completion of this building will afford. The growth of the insti- 
tution is such that laboratories, class rooms, and offices are not 
available in which to house and care for the needs of the present 
student body. 

In addition, the Federal Board for Vocational Education is ask- 
ing the institution to take over the training of 500 wounded Geor- 
gia soldiers who fought on every battlefield in France and freely 
shed their blood for the perpetuation throughout the world of 
liberty and freedom. Unless this building is completed, provis- 
ion for the training of these men can not be made. The United 
States government provides for their maintenance, and is asking 
institutions such as the State College of Agriculture to afford 
these heroes of the great World War an opportunity to prepare 
themselves for adequate service in civil life. A duty, responsi- 
bility and privilege therefore devolve upon the people of Georgia 
in this respect, and the Trustees feel that if the members of the 
General Assembly understand and realize the situation as ex- 
pressed above, they will gladly appropriate the funds needed for 
the immediate completion of this essential unit of the College 
plant. 

3. Installation of Adequate Fire Protection System — $25,000.00. 
Fire Marshall of Georgia, Mr. W. R. Joyner, visited the Col- 
lege of Agriculture last fall and stated that the present fire pro- 
tection system was totally inadequate, and recommended the im- 
mediate installation of an eight-inch high pressure main on the 
grounds so connected with the city system as to insure a proper 
circulation of water at all times. This and other changes to 
meet the requirements of the situation which expert engineers 
advise as necessary will cost approximately $25,000.00, in view 
of the high cost of labor and materials involved. Coming from 
so competent an authority and being presented to the Trustees in 
an official manner, we feel that we would be recreant to a trust 
and a duty if we did not call this matter to your attention and 
ask for the appropriation of the sum of money indicated to be 
used for the purpose mentioned. We have now a dormitory for 
women on our grounds and a group of buildings which represent 
an investment of several hundred thousand dollars. The equip- 
ment in these buildings is costly and would be difficult to replace. 

4. Purchase of Tract of Land Now Occupied by Negroes — $25,000. 

This land adjoins the College campus and is immediately in 
the rear of the new Womans Building. The attention of the leg- 
islature has been directed for several years past to the necessity 
of granting the Trustees the authority to condemn this property 
and provide the funds for its purchase. It has always consti- 

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tuted a menace, as many of the students as well as some of the 
men and women employed by the College have to travel through 
this section going to and from their work. Its closeness to the 
new Womans Building now makes its purchase an imperative 
matter. The Trustees feel that the responsibility resting upon 
them relative to this matter is of such nature as to fully justify 
them in asking for the authority to condemn the land in question 
and to provide the funds indicated for its immediate purchase 
for the reasons assigned above. 

THE GEORGIA NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. 

This College is located at Milledgeville. It is doing a great 
work and has a great future before it. For the reasons assigned 
for increased maintenance in all the other schools, the Directors 
of this institution ask for an increased maintenance fund of $20,- 
000.00 and $5,000.00 for an auditorium and $5,000.00 for paving 
and repairs. There is at the present time a bill before the Legis- 
lature asking for another dormitory which is sadly needed. 

The auditorium is specially needed for the reason that the 
College has no place in which all of the students can assemble. 
The present auditorium is in an upper story of one of the college 
buildings, and it is small, and besides, the students have to climb 
steps in order to get to it. This is a matter that is specially im- 
portant. 

During the last commencement, the grounds and sidewalks 
during the rainy season were soggy and muddy, and it was only 
with difficulty that the students could go from one building to 
another, on account of the condition of the passways. The Di- 
rectors of that institution wish to attempt to remedy this, and 
for this reason have asked for an appropriation of $5,000.00 to 
be used for this purpose, and also for the purpose of repairing 
the present buildings. It is to be hoped that with this amount 
of money the proper pavement can be put down and the neces- 
sary repairs be made. 

The Georgia Normal and Industrial College is a great college. 
It has a large attendance and is doing a great work. It is a large 
institution and teaching force, and the Legislature may be sure 
that whatever money is appropriated for its use will do great 
good. 

THE BOWDEN NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. 

This is the youngest branch college of the University. The 
present Legislature during the session of 1919 established it. It 
is located at Bowden, in Carroll County, in one of the most pros- 
perous sections of the State. Previous to its establishment the 
State had no branch college in this section, and such an institu- 
tion was much needed. It is proposed to start its college work 
this next September, and up to this time about 200 pupils, boys 
and girls, have been enrolled to enter it as students. The sum of 

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$20,000.00 is asked for maintenance, which would seem to be a 
reasonable sum, and also the sum of $50,000.00 for the building 
of a dormitory. The buildings and grounds of Bowden College 
were made over to the State by the Trustees of Bowden College, 
and these buildings and grounds are now the property of the 
State. As a practical proposition, it is possibly cheaper to edu- 
cate students at Bowden than at any of the older institutions for 
the reason that the State would be called upon to appropriate less 
money. If the 200 girls and boys who desire to enter Bowden 
College are to be educated by the State, it would require increased 
appropriations for other institutions in order to accommodate 
them, but having located this branch college at Bowden in a 
splendid agricultural section of the State, doubtless board and 
cost of attendance upon the college would be less there than any- 
where else. The State is as much interested in the education of the 
boy and girl in one section of the State as in another ; is as much 
interested in educating the students that desire to go to Bowden 
College as those that wish to go elsewhere. 

We wish to impress upon the Legislature especially the claims 
of Bowden College to these appropriations, and we hope and trust 
that it may in its wisdom be able to give this help. 



THE STATE NORMAL COLLEGE. 

The great work being done by the State Normal College is the 
training and furnishing of teachers for the State. The students 
that go there go especially to be trained as teachers, and the 
work of the college is directed to that end. All of the schools 
that the State has for the teaching of teachers cannot turn out 
enough to keep pace with the loss from the teaching force from 
death and circumstantial reasons that cause teachers to leave 
their profession and assume other relations. This school asks 
for an appropriation of $30,000.00 for increased maintenance, 
caused by the increase in attendance and the necessity for pay- 
ing greater salaries to its teachers. The arguments that obtain 
everywhere apply here. For the want of money, Dr. Pound, the 
President of the institution, has had a hard time to keep his 
teaching force together. 

This institution also asks for $100,000.00 for the building of a 
new dormitory and laundry. Both of these things are needed, 
and it would enable the school to reduce the laundry cost to its 
students. 

The work at the State Normal School is thorough. Teachers 
who take the full course there are equipped to teach in any of 
our schools. They graduated from that school this year more 
than 150 students who had taken a full four-years course. These 
graduates will be a great help to the State in schools where thor- 
ough training and efficient teachers are needed. 

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THE NORTH GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 

The North Georgia Agricultural College is located at Dahlon- 
ega. It asks this year $50,000.00 for a dormitory and also an in- 
creased appropriation for maintenance of $5,000.00. This col- 
lege is located in the northeastern part of the State, it is a splen- 
did institution and has been and is doing a great work. In the 
past it has not cost the State much money. There was a small 
appropriation nearly ten years ago for a building, and since then 
it has had no help in the way of appropriations for buildings. It 
has long needed this dormitory, and a class room building com- 
bined in one. It has needed them all the while and they are 
needed today worse than ever. This college should not be dwarfed 
any longer, but should be put in position to offer to the people 
of that section and the State adequate facilities for the educa- 
tion of the young. 

THE SOUTH GEORGIA NORMAL COLLEGE. 

This college is located at Valdosta, Georgia, and is a compara- 
tively young institution. Its work has been successful and 
through the able management of its Trustees and the successful 
conduct of its officers by the President, Mr. R. H. Powell, who 
has been in charge from the founding of the institution, and the 
work of its faculty, it has made a good showing. It has grown 
enormously and the curriculum and character of the teaching 
given in that College is not surpassed by any other school in the 
University system. Being located in South Georgia and far 
away from any other branch of the University, it should have 
the special care and support of the Legislature. The people of 
South Georgia have supported the University in all of its 
branches for a long number of years previous to the establish- 
ment of this college. 

It asks for an increased appropriation for maintenance of $5,- 
000.00 and $75,000.00 for the completion and equipment of a 
building now in course of construction. These appropriations are 
asked for on account of the increased cost of teaching force and 
of material for construction. 

Located as it is in that section of our State, and having the 
great field it has before it, together with an almost unlimited 
amount of material that desires to enter that institution, no other 
school in the University system has more equitable claim to the 
generous support from the Legislature. 

THE CHANCELLOR. 

The Chancellor is the chief executive officer of the University 
system. Dr. D. C. Barrow has held this office for a long time. 
Backed by an ancestry that goes back to the Colonial days, he 
was born a Georgian and is proud of it. He graduated from the 
University with the highest class standing; he was a model stu- 
dent. He was called to the Chair of Mathematics in the Uni- 

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versity, and taught as Professor in that Department for a long 
time until he was elected Chancellor. His administration has 
been successful, and his relations with the different branch col- 
leges have been pleasant and helpful. It was largely his work 
that the extension of the campus was made, expanding it from 
27 acres to about 1000, without any cost to the State ; it was he, 
through his influence in getting donations and giving his own 
time and money that secured for the University and the State 
the present commodious law building, which was so much needed. 
It might be remarked here that the law department is the only 
department of the University that is self-sustaining through fees 
from the students, and which department is run and managed 
without cost to the State. From his long connection with the 
University, no man knows more of its history, its genius, and its 
traditions than the Chancellor. He is loved and appreciated by 
the student body, and by every one connected with the system. 
He is kind and considerate, yet firm in the face of necessity ; he is 
a father and friend and counsellor to every student ; a successful 
business man, trained and practical. He has the administration 
of the financial affairs of the University. Not a dollar appro- 
priated by the State for the use of the University ever failed to 
reach its destined purpose. His influence upon the students for 
good has been great; the discipline has been all that could be 
wished. Through his influence every student during the last 
session has been in some way connected with church work. 

A born teacher, he is ever upon the alert as to the work done 
in the different departments, and insists upon the highest stand- 
ard. The Trustees would offer his attainments and accomplish- 
ments, his life and character as an inspiration to every young 
Gerogian who would fill out to the full measure a life of useful- 
ness. 

It would be a pleasure here to refer individually to the work of 
the heads of the University branch colleges, and the teaching 
force throughout the system. Under the past economic changes 
and untoward circumstances, these men have worked hard and 
heroically at their tasks. During the war, when heavy burdens 
were placed upon them, they worked with renewed energy, and 
great credit should be given them for the showing Georgia made 
on her part in the great struggle. The record does not show in 
their ranks a single laggard in his work. Loyal and patriotic, 
they enthused proper spirit into the students, and the cause and 
claims of higher education with all its imports can be safely en- 
trusted in their different fields to their care. 

There are items under the heads of the different Branch Col- 
leges for increased maintenance. The University proper has an 
item of twenty-five thousand dollars asked for to hold its teach- 
ing force together. Most of these professors have been with the 
University for a long while and for them to part company with 
the institution would be like beginning life anew both on the part 

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of the men and the University. We have lost many men already 
and we cannot afford to lose any more of these tried and faithful 
officers. When changed conditions and the increased attendance 
are considered along with the additional work put upon them, 
there would seem to be no reason why this should not be granted. 

It may be said that higher education costs money. There are 
few things that are worth while that can be had for nothing. 
Our churches and Sunday schools cost money, but who would 
shut them up because we must contribute to their support. It is 
a privilege to help them, and we think the world would be as dark 
and cheerless without them as without the sun : so to cripple our 
educational institutions for lack of help would be to usher in a 
future dark and fraught with impending ruin and disaster to the 
interests of our people and Georgia might descend even lower in 
her educational standing when compared with the other States 
of this Union. 

Georgia is not poor. Last year she paid about forty millions 
of dollars as taxes into the Federal Treasury. This money was 
hard to pay but much of it came as a result of the progress she 
has made in scientific education; from her improved farming, 
from her manufactories and from the development of her natural 
resources. Yet she has just started upon the great future that 
lies before her. With a population now of three millions, she 
would have twenty millions if she were as thickly populated as 
Germany; she would have twenty-five millions if her population 
was as dense as that of Belgium. The largest State in area East 
of the Mississippi river, she has the greatest diversity of cli- 
mate, soil and products of all the States. In 1785 our forefathers 
founded the University and since then Georgians have kept the 
faith; through Civil War and dark days of oppression the Uni- 
versity has existed and expanded and beat time for the progress 
of our State. The foundation was laid broad as shown by its 
original charter ; its founders intended it should grow great nour- 
ished by the love and affection of all the poeple. In this spirit 
with our endeavor let us so give it to posterity. 

Respectfully submitted, 

GEO. F. GOBER, Chairman, 
W. E. SIMMONS, 
BYRON BOWER, 
HUGH J. ROWE, 
J. E. HAYES, 
R. B. RUSSELL, 
L. G. HARDMAN. 

Committee on Legislation of Board of 
Trustees of the University of Georgia. 



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